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I've written this blog in response to a previous discussion of the safer spaces policy at the NYC…

In 2012, Poland and Ukraine are going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. For that reason hundreds of millions of euro from the…

Peter Zarrow looks at the way the anarchists enlarged the sphere of feminist discourse in China. He focuses on the anarchist He Zhen, who pointed…

This is a short blog prompted by recent events in Brighton, as well as wider discussions I’ve been having about the (possible) relationship of…

bell hooks' short introduction to feminist politics.

A contemporary introduction to the various sociological, philosophical and political approaches to gender.

Exposes the dark heart of contemporary cultural life by examining pornography, consumer capitalism and the ideology of women's work.

Polite Ire takes on 'banter' by analysing what makes a joke funny. Written in the wake of the website 'UniLad' openly advocating rape 'as a joke'…

Polite Ire argues that patriarchy cannot be challenged without taking on capitalism and the state - and vice versa.

Polite Ire looks at the links between gender and the state, arguing that masculinity is constructed in the image of the state.

Polite Ire critiques gender essentialism and fashionable brain imaging studies.